General View of the Agriculture of the County of Dumfries: With Observations on the Means of Its ImprovementT. Wright, 1794 - 108 |
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Strona 73 - ... considerable number of nobleman and gentlemen, proprietors of land in the county and stewartry, subscribed among them about L. 1500, for building the bridge and making roads to each end of it ; and government gave a considerable sum towards payment of the balance of the whole expences. Of late, roads are made more flat and broad than formerly, and great attention is paid to the hard and dry quality of the materials. These are all great improvements ; but the first hath been carried a little too...
Strona 1 - TO THE READER. IT is requested that this paper, may be returned to the Board of Agriculture, at its Office in London, with any additional remarks and observations which may occur on the perusal, written on the margin, as soon as may be convenient. It is hardly necessary to add, that the Board does not...
Strona 1 - Relieved, will be found greatly fuperior, to any thing of the kind, ever yet made public. The Board has adopted the fame plan, in regard to all the other counties in the united kingdom; and...
Strona 10 - The singular county hangman goes through the market, every marketday, with a brass ladle, or large spoon, pushes it into the mouth of every sack of meal, corn, &.c. and carries it off full.
Strona 55 - Formerly there were feveral commons (or commomies as they are called) in this county. But, fome years ago, the greater part of them were divided among the furrounding heritors, (proprietors of land) in proportion to the fervitudes, which the dominant tenements had upon the common, for the years of the long prefcription, according to the law of Scotland. Though this law is much more favourable for the divifion of commons, than that of England, yet the length of time...
Strona 70 - Blackwood and the town of Sanquhar, two very high and hard rocks are cut down, and the road is carried through them. On all...
Strona 55 - England, yet the length. of time and-expencc of a procefs for divifion of commons are fo great, efpecially when the parties in the procefs are numerous, that in fome inftances heritors might purchafe as much land of equal quality, for little more money than the expence of the divifion. There are ftill a few commons ; but the...
Strona 1 - Hufbandry of this diftricl:, and to enable every one to contribute his mite to the improvement of the country. The Board has adopted the fame plan, in regard to all the other Counties in the United Kingdom ; and will be happy to give every...
Strona 55 - Britain, commons ftill continue. So ftrong are the old habits which men have formed from generation to generation, and fo very difficult is it to make illiterate or unthinking men change thefe, even when, like all bad habits, they are equally...